Normally a young boy named Alexander, his cousin Hallie, and three stuffed animals, once they board his bed their world is transformed into a magical vessel, sailing the seven seas on dangerous and exciting adventures!Captain No Beard - An Imaginary Tale of a Pirate's Life named to Kirkus Reviews' BEST OF 2012 for Children's Indie Books, and garnered the star of remarkable merit!"Roman charms with an imaginative, whimsical picture book that will entertain even the oldest pirates." Kirkus Review

    Her mother high and well respected in social circles. Her father the best doctor money could buy. Most women her age are already married with children, however, these marriages are often loveless and arranged to benefit social status. Ella wants to marry for love and she certainly doesn't love Andrew Shapel, the most recent gentleman of high standing to propose to her, much to the approval of her matriarchal aunt who is convinced she has found Ella the best husband in high society. Unfortunately she has sent her to her doom. Andrew may be devilishly handsome and charming on the outside but on the inside he harbours a darkness no one would suspect. She is left for dead on a pirate ship! Falling in and out of consciousness as she is dragged to the brig and left in the darkness with nothing but the painfully vivid recollection of how she got there as company. With the crew calling for her to be thrown overboard and saying a woman on board is a curse, she realises that she is at the mercy of the captain, who doesn't take kindly to stowaways on his ship. She is petrified and prepared to die but little does she know that from the very first moment Captain Thomas Tyler lays eyes on her he finally believed in love at first sight. Placing her under his protection, his anger directed towards those who used his ship as a way to dispose of their crimes. He promises to return her to her family and hopes in time that the memories that haunt her soul will fade. One thing he wasn't prepared for, protecting her from himself. A lady and a pirate is absurd!(NB) Written using modern day colloquialisms intermingled with historical essence. All historical references have been check for accuracy in relation to late 1800's.

    A mix of Seals, Delta Force, British SAS and French, German and Polish SpecOps operators. Led by a former Navy Seal, Lieutenant Abe Talley. This is Echo Six. Even before they finish training a crisis develops that requires their unique and bloody brand of soldiering.Hostages are about to die, facing execution at the hands of the scourge of the seas - pirates. The objective is inside Somalia. Al Qaeda has taken piracy under its control to fund their worldwide quest for terror and death in the name of Islam. Talley’s unit is hastily transferred to a nuclear carrier patrolling the Arabian Sea. Echo Six is to go ashore, kill the pirates and rescue the hostages. Exfiltration will be via the advanced, super-silent Black Hawks of the secretive 160th Aviation Regiment. Yet plans can and often do go wrong. And this time is no exception.Fighting with an ill-prepared yet expert squad of operatives, Talley has to control the bitter rivalry of his own men as they close with the enemy. An enemy who is well equipped and well prepared for the coming attack. Behind him, his own commanders are riven by political infighting and personal agendas that threaten to tear his unit apart almost before it has got off the ground. And the mission rapidly expands to take in new and larger, more dangerous objectives. Echo Six:Black Ops is an exciting and bloodthirsty story of the fierce, no-quarters fighting of a NATO SpecOps unit.

    But she never dreamed she’d become widowed so quickly, or that she’d come face to face with a fearsome pirate who expects her to fight like a man. Captured and her identity exposed, she doesn’t know what’s worse, being locked alone in a pirate captain’s quarters or experiencing an unsettling attraction toward him.Captain Bran Blackthorn has grown weary of the pirating trade and seeks a King’s Pardon for his crew. Unfortunately, the man who could sign a reprieve, his half-brother Governor Flynn, would rather see him dead. When the gods—or the devil—bestows an angel to his spoils, he sees an opportunity to force a pardon with her ransom. Never mind his beautiful pawn has bewitched him, filling him with a desire to press his body against hers, capture her mouth in a searing kiss, and brand her as his own.But when Bran’s enemies seek vengeance, Elyssa becomes entangled in their deadly game and Bran faces the gallows. Can they cheat death and save each other? Or will they be dragged...Beneath The Water’s Edge

    She rules with gentility, love and a velvet glove, beloved by all her people. Amidst the tranquility of her reign there is a breed of men, warriors and pirates, knights and knaves, that engage in back-alley duels. These are the "Rogue Blades." They battle for the entertainment of the masses and the coins that they throw. Her subjects, bored by the peaceful era of Arianna, crave the clashing of weapons, the ringing of swords, and the taking of lives. Disturbed by the violent blood sport that is staining her reign, the Queen has ordered her Royal Guard to put an end to these contests. In the dueling world, Dave the Knave, self-proclaimed Greatest Swordsman That Has Ever Lived, hears about the growing fame of Sir James the Great Knight, seconded by the faithful Squire Paul. Dave believes that they are on a collison course, headed for a battle of epic proportions. Will they meet before the Royal Guard brings an end to the street duels? Or is there something even more ominous in store for everyone?

    Not only does this book take you on an extraordinary journey of a young woman in search of her identity; but it is packed with action, adventure and heart-stopping suspense.From the first few pages of this book you will open the door to Reilly’s imagination: one filled with witty, graceful pirates, rainy graveyards, and mysterious stowaways…

    Packed with previously unseen visual material, including storyboards and designs for sets and key characters, this highly collectible full-colour book charts the journey from paper to screen: a five-year process for a crew of just 320 people - requiring 3.000 storyboard images, 19,456 square metres of foam board and 893 different mouths for the Pirate Captain alone. Also included are rare interviews with the directors, producers and key members of the production team, giving insight into the creative and technical challenges of a project of this size and ambition. The Making of The Pirates! is a must-have for the many fans of the film, and for anyone interested in the methods, passions and eccentricities of Aardman, this most quintessentially British animation studio.

    But when farm life kept him from the sea, the sea came to him – in the form of Rye Blackbird, the infamous mutineer whose wondrous tales help set Hale on his own path to adventure. And such adventures they are! Villains, mysteries, sea battles and even a cursed island await.Privet's story is part folklore and part fantasy, set in a long-ago time where you might just as easily witness something mystical, as feel the salty spray of the sea on your face. FELLENGREY is a bedtime story for grown-ups, complete with pirates, ghosts, magic spells and, of course, a beautiful maiden to capture the dashing hero's heart. Author Scott Thomas lyrically creates a world that is visceral and treacherous, but also lovely and familiar.

    When their airship is destroyed, Jardan finds himself cast adrift with nothing but a knife and a troublesome young woman. As Jardan struggles to remain the Airman his father raised him to be, he blazes a bloody trail across the watery planet. He may succeed, if he can escape from hordes of pirates, a sociopathic bounty hunter, and a sadistic madwoman bent on world conquest ... And if the pirate girl doesn't kill him first...

    He soon fell into company with Blackbeard in the Bahamas and headed for America. In May 1718, they arrived in Charleston and held the entire city hostage in a daring siege. Bonnet was eventually captured in North Carolina and transported back to Charleston, where he was brought to justice and executed on December 10, 1718. Join local pirate tour guide Captain Christopher Byrd Downey as he recounts the swashbuckling life of the most infamous pirate to ever darken the Holy City's waters.

    KHABALLO by Margo LerwillCareened on a cursed island, the old captain and her men are caught between warring navies. 2. VICTORIA AND THE IRONCLAD by Douglas KolackiAn escaped slave and a pirate captain race to capture the Confederacy's ultimate weapon.3. BLIND MAN'S BLUFF by Jonathan BroughtonThe trickster's reward is deceit.4. SKRITCH by John BlackportYour enemy may be your best ally.5. DIAMONDS AND BONES by Kris Austen RadcliffeIn space, you may need to deal for the diamonds your bones need.6. UN HOMME DE COULEUR LIBRE by Liv RancourtFate sets Robert's life on a new course.7. SCYLLA AND THE PEPPER PIRATES by Rayne HallA spunky young woman sets out to rescue her long-lost lover.8. BROADSIDED by KJ KieganLove can take you off course.9. THE PENSIONER PIRATES OF MARINE PARADE by Jonathan BroughtonRebel pensioners revolt.10. THE BOOK OF ADVENTURES by Douglas KolackiIn the Great Depression, two brothers find two kinds of escape.

    A valet? Why not? Escorting an elderly diplomat to the Leeward Islands seems like an easy job, but when their ship is boarded by pirates, Kit’s world is turned upside down. Forced aboard the pirate ship, Kit finds himself juggling his honor with his desire to stay alive among the crew, not to mention the alarming—yet enticing—captain, known as La Griffe. Kit has always obeyed the rules, but as the pirates plunder their way across the Caribbean, he finds much to admire in their freedom. He deplores their lawlessness but is drawn to their way of life, and begins to think he might just have found a purpose. Dare he dream of finding love too? Or would loving a pirate take him too far down the road to ruin?

    It’s an undersea emergency—everybody needs to get out, and fast! But will there be time to save three floating Blobfish before the big blast?

    Tying the fiery beauty to his bed, Jack claims Emma as his...over and over again. Jack has a secret. One he's kept hidden from his best friend Emma... When she calls in a favor, asking Jack to perform in a pirate fetish fantasy at the nightclub she manages, Emma inadvertently opens Pandora's box-for both of them. As portraying a dominant pirate forces more of Jack's secret desires to light, Emma finds herself enmeshed in sensual explorations of BDSM, wax play, bondage and sex in public that leave her questioning her vanilla existence. When a second heated interlude on the stage finds her submitting to Jack, Emma suspects she'll never find her way back to her simple missionary lifestyle. But with Jack in control...she's not sure she wants to. White Knight Sequel to Black Jack. Shea Landon knows this is a bad idea. But when you're broke, tired and homeless, you do crazy things. She decides to crash in her new place of employment, a fetish club, borrowing the big, comfy bed that's used as a stage prop. She doesn't realize she's not alone... Travis Knight knows this is a bad idea. As he views his new waitress sneaking around the club after hours, he realizes he should fire her, call the police. Instead, captivated, he watches her on the same security monitors that separate him from the world. Until watching isn't nearly enough... Two people-one desperate, one broken, both hopelessly alone. Two people assuaging their needs through spanking and sex games, bondage and taboo fantasy. It's enough. It has to be-when the biggest secret between them might be a tragedy neither can overcome.

    Falsely accused of piracy himself, Jack is thrown into jail. He survives seven years in London's notorious Newgate prison and emerges a hardened man seeking revenge. His obsession with finding his mother's kidnapper drives him to the West Indies where he becomes entangled with a fiery young woman named Maria Cordero. With a score of her own to settle with James Logan, she disguises her gender and blackmails Jack into taking her aboard his pirate brig, Prodigal , in his desperate search for Logan. Their tumultuous relationship simmers while Jack formulates a daring plan to rescue his mother and exact revenge upon Logan for destroying his family. But Logan has no intentions of losing what he now treasures more than life itself‚ Jack's mother, Ella.

    She is terrified that his lordship might positively ruin her reputation by exposing her poor behaviour. But when she learns that he has a secret of his own, she throws caution to the wind and sneaks aboard his ship in the middle of the night, intent on using that knowledge to seal his lips … Anton's secret -- that he is a gentleman pirate -- takes on new meaning when he sails for Barbados, to escape his father’s heavy hand, and realizes he has a stowaway on board. By the time Elizabeth’s presence is discovered, it is too late to turn back. As they are thrown together for weeks at sea, their stormy passions will grow, perhaps into something more…

    Readers will learn all about life on board a pirate ship, the jobs that pirates did, how they attacked other ships and stole their cargo, how they were caught and punished, and answers to many more of the best pirate questions. The question and answer format, entertaining illustrations, and open-anywhere format make this perfect for reluctant readers and pirate lovers alike. Arrgh!

    After stumbling upon a mauled Congolese child soldier they also find what he had hidden - three large diamonds. The diamonds belonged to General Cosmo Zomba wa Zomba who presides over the Congolese jungle with his Corporal, Duke Amin thwarting the efforts of the UN Peacekeepers at every turn. Hired by the mysterious diamond merchant, Richard Katz, Derek and Pedro go to the Walikale region of the Congo closely followed by the young and idealistic Natalie Cox who is determined to reveal Katz's illegal trade.Kidnapped by Cosmo and force-marched into the wilderness the four hostages become pawns in a dangerous game. It seems that the murderous Madame Azziza Nshuti is at the heart of everything. What is she up to? Is there a link between her and Katz? Can Cosmo trust her? Can anyone trust her? Has she corrupted members of the UN?As Lake Kiva threatens to release a deadly gas over the inhospitable terrain, the hostages lives are in the balance as they try to escape their captors and avoid the drug-fuelled, violent and unpredictable child soldiers. Will they get away before Cosmo and a rival war-lord join forces to destroy the UN camp? How far will General Cosmo go to retrieve his diamonds when he discovers Derek's secret?Fast-paced, gripping and a genuine page-turner, Cummings' action adventure marks the arrival of an author who compares to Wilbur Smith at the height of his powers. Author BioAn award-winning wildlife conservationists, Greg Cummings achieved remarkable success protecting gorilla populations in the wild, through community-based initiatives in East and Central Africa. In a career spanning two decades, he personally raised over $10 million dollars for this work, and formed enduring relationships with the Gates Foundation, World Bank, European Union, UNESCO, and US Fish & Wildlife - to name just a few. What really motivates him is a vision of a strong, indigenous movement for development in Africa - owned and managed by Africans for the good of future generations. Since 2009 he has been a director of WildLIGHT, a registered charity in Uganda where he lives.

    . . a lobsterman, concerned with the changes in his recent haul, calls upon an old friend to help him unlock the mystery . . . A woman, wagered in a game of chance, seeks her fortune on a very special ship. Ocean Stories offers 22 tales of the deep. Ranging from fantasy to horror to darkly humorous, these tales explore both the beauty and the danger of the sea. Here you will find selkies and mermaids, sirens and sea monsters, myth and magic. Featuring tales by Camille Alexa, Paul L. Bates, Thomas Canfield, Mike Allen and Charles M. Saplak, Jennifer Crow, Eric Del Carlo, Katie Hartlove, Adam Meyer, Gregory L. Norris, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Mary Peace Finley and others.

    She is undeterred when someone tells her that girls can't or girls didn't do something. This time Jacqueline and Jacob are off on a pirate treasure hunt. Jacqueline is the captain of the pirate ship that takes them to an island where she hopes to find the treasure of Pirate Williams that was lost at sea many years before. Will they find the lost treasure before it is time for Jacob to go home?

    An eBook Bundle featuring Colette Moody romances:The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin – Pirate Gayle Malvern finds the presence of an abducted seamstress, Celia Pierce, a welcome distraction until the captive comes to mean more to her than is wise.The Seduction of Moxie – When 1930s Broadway actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, she is nstantly attracted and her Hollywood trip takes an unexpected turn.Parties in Congress – Bijal Rao, Indian-American moderate Independent, gets the break of her career when she’s hired to work on the congressional campaign of Janet Denton—until she meets her remarkably attractive and charismatic opponent, Colleen O’Bannon.

    After inheriting a portion of Spain’s Royal Inheritance, he resigned the life of brigands for a chance at honest wealth. With the secrets of his piracy tucked away, he achieved his lofty aspirations. But when his partner and best friend betrays him to the Royal Navy, Cain’s dreams are ripped to shreds. He’s left with his ship, the tattered remnants of a stolen future, and a piece of Spanish mystery. Wanted by three nations and destined for the gallows, he returns to the legendary band of buccaneers for one purpose---vengeance.Kidnapped by the formidable Cain, India Prescott discovers he intends to kill the man she’s to marry, Richard Grey. Cain’s story reveals betrayal. Treachery that extends to her as well. Although she holds the key to retribution, India refuses to become another man’s pawn. Freedom lies before her, the liberty to shrug off propriety, make her own decisions, and claim her destiny. But when she uncovers goodness in Cain’s soul and he awakens passion in her heart, she must combat the chains of convention once more.Only this time India's not fighting society. She’s battling a pirate bent on keeping her decency intact.

     War between the Northern Alliance and the League of the Antilles is well underway. In the New World what is left of humanity fights for dominance and a return to glory; because the Old World died in the Great Plague of 1666. But this plague carried a curse worse than pestilence, as the dead themselves attacked the living, adding them in their growing endless wave. Yet the truth behind the Risen plague and the Old World’s death has never been told. In Port Royal, an old sailor is more than willing to spin his tale. Aye me lad, have a seat next to me and listen to the true story of the Black Brig. No one is going to tell you the truth in this Brave New World. Because Dead Men tell no tales. Set in an alternate historical setting, Dead Men Tell No Tales narrates the events that brought a great disaster to an end in 1676. Pirates, voodoo, and seagoing undead await you in this fantastic journey in a land that never was.NOTE: This is the short story. The whole novel is available as 'DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES - THE FULL TALE'.

    . .Jade has no control over her future. She is the Emmía, the girl whose magical blood keeps her kingdom’s cursed soil fertile and ensures the survival of her people. But her destiny is ruined when pirates take her magical medallion, the loss of which is treasonous, and the prince she loves is honor-bound to sentence her to death.
Forced to flee to the pirate she hates . . .Jade escapes from prison, but her sister is captured and will die in her place unless Jade returns with the medallion still on the pirates’ ship. In disguise, she joins the pirate crew where she finds herself drawn to the first officer, William, and his claims of the crown’s hidden brutality in the kingdom. But when Jade learns the fate of every Emmía before her, she is finally forced to choose her own destiny: die a martyr or live a rebel.

    Then, one night, Edward finds himself taken aboard the pirate ship the Cerberus, captained by the feared Captain Wolfang. Edward soon finds himself sailing the world searching for a mysterious treasure his father left behind, a treasure Edward is determined to find if he can survive long enough to do so.

    A story of treasure lost and finally found.

    Intead of a luxury cruise, the friends find themselves aboard a ship of phantom pirates - how frightful! And when the friendly ghosties discover that the pirates plan to invade a still-alive ship, they simply have to help - after all, it is the polite thing to do!

    College and freedom. That was all she had ever wanted…until freedom no longer became an option thanks to Pete, a boyishly handsome newcomer and his quiet, massive and dark foster brother Andrew. When her fate is painfully revealed as the princess of an endangered world, known as Everland, Gwen must escape the clutches of Jamison Hookner, leader of the gruesome pirates set on stopping her, and save the childhood world she had come to know every night around eight o’ clock.

    They’ll have to learn how to survive as pirates if they’re to have any hope of weathering rough waves, brutal crew members, enemy pirates, ravenous beasts, and worse. But when fortune turns to their favor, it’s up to the new crew to decide whether they’ll remain the pirate’s swabs or seize control and set sail for adventures all their own.This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path and includes:- “The Wormwood Mutiny,” a Pathfinder RPG adventure for 1st-level characters, by Richard Pett.- Details of life aboard a pirate vessel and rules for becoming the most infamous scallywag to sail the seas, by Jesse Benner, Richard Pett, and F. Wesley Schneider.- Revelations on the daring faith of Besmara, goddess of pirates, strife, and sea monsters, by Sean K Reynolds.- Death and plunder in the Pathfinder’s Journal, by Robin D. Laws.- Four new monsters, by Jesse Benner, Sean K Reynolds, and Steven D. Russell.Cover art by Daryl Mandryk

    But, before his adventure even begins onboard the Skull Ship, he manages to fall madly in love with Lady Rebecca Armstrong, an aristocratic beauty on the tropical island of Jamaica. However, and after learning that she was actually married to the man who had become his sworn and bitter enemy, young Charles (who had changed his name to Sir Charles of Riley, in trying to appear better born than he was) hopes that an adventurous life upon the open sea ~ with a band of Pirate gentlemen ~ will help him to forget that dear lady . . . that is, until he accidently bumps into her again, only a year later, in England. Having last seen her in a very bad way (that is, with lying to, and of stealing from her and her husband), Charles begins to realize that he may have made some terrible mistakes in the recent past, and he begins to wonder if she will ever forgive him! Captain Skull, from the Memoirs of Sir Charles of Riley, is packed with Swashbuckling Adventure, Exciting Swordplay, Breathtaking Tropical Locations, Occasional Lighthearted Comedy, Intense Drama, and Romance!

    Bryan Thomas Schmidt takes us to the border where illegal aliens are captured by aliens from outer space. C.J. Kilmer takes us to a post-apocalyptic future where the driver of a steam-powered truck encounters a cybernetic supersoldier. Kelly Dillon warns of the dangers that could come of pushing teleportation technology too far. Scott Allen Abfalter imagines a future where wizards invoke their spells using computers. Take up the Talisman and explore these stories and more!

    The sinfully handsome Devon Cutter is the only son of the most dreaded of all pirates, Blackheart. The very sound of Devon’s name Cutthroat Cutter places bone crushing fear in Atlantic sailors. He loves and thrives in his world of piracy identical to his father. In a moment of weakness Cutthroat saves a damsel in distress after a decisive sea battle. He can’t for the life of him figure out why he acted so foolishly. Louanne McKay is now a festering thorn in his side the moment she stepped foot onto The Star Dancer. No one has ever bested her with a sword, not even one of her five brothers. Losing for the first time was a bitter pill to swallow, even though it convinced Cutter she was not leaving his company abruptly like first thought. The Savannah Bell blatantly crosses swords with the arrogant rogue when he unwisely orders the mouthy female thrown off his ship while out at sea. The sword welding wench displayed more skill and brass than half his crew. The question was what to do with her? Disowned by her family Louanne is left with no home or recourse. The hardened pirate refuses to surrender her to his sworn enemy an English lord she unwillingly was betrothed to marry. His nightmare was only beginning when Louanne seizes her own destiny during a sea battle and claimed the right to Captain her own ship.

    On the day of the wedding, he walks away from the Elencheran town of Dove's Meadow and joins the army. He makes his second mistake when the pirate Black Iris tricks him into letting dozens of men, women and children die in a fire. Demetrius is imprisoned in grief and disgrace. But he can atone. The Black Iris is dead. The Ivory Rose has risen to the top of the pirates and is leading brutal raids on the coast. If Demetrius can capture and kill her, he'll win his pardon. And then Demetrius discovers the Ivory Rose is Eleyna. He must decide which will be his third mistake: losing his last chance at a pardon or destroying the one woman he's ever loved.

    Privateers and pirates raided along the coast of powerful countries and were, at times, at war with England, France, and Spain. They developed their own system of rules, a code of morality, and a very rough form of government. Pirates were eventually able to organize behind a captain who eventually would become like a governor with judicial power over all the pirates and control over settlements taken by the pirates in raids.

    Puzzle Adventures combine an exciting adventure story with an important feature: the reader doesn’t need to use a pen tocomplete the puzzles! Stories are based around characters that are popular for this age group: knights,astronauts, mermaids and unicorns. Different kinds of puzzles help to develop key skills of memory, visual recognition and deduction skills.